Critique in German Philosophy

Critique has been a central theme in the German philosophical tradition since the eighteenth century. The main goal of this book is to provide a history of this concept from its Kantian inception to contemporary critical theory. Focusing on both canonical and previously overlooked texts and thinkers, the contributors bring to light alternative conceptions of critique within nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy, which have profound implications for contemporary philosophy. By offering a critical revision of the history of modern European philosophy, this book raises new questions about what it means for philosophy to be "critical" today.

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Introduction
María del Rosario Acosta López and J. Colin McQuillan

1. The Struggle between Dogmatism and Skepticism in the Prussian Academy: A Precedent for Kantian Critique
Catalina González

2. Pure Sensibility as a Source of Corruption: Kant's Critique of Metaphysics in theInaugural Dissertation andCritique of Pure Reason
Karin de Boer

3. Critique in Kant'sCritique of Practical Reason: Why ThisCritique Is Not a Critique of Pure Practical Reason
Avery Goldman

4. On an Aesthetic Dimension of Critique: The Time of the Beautiful in Schiller'sAesthetic Letters
María del Rosario Acosta López

5. Not Yet a System, Not Yet a Science: Reinhold and Fichte on Kant's Critique
J. Colin McQuillan

6. Schelling's Philosophical Letters on Doctrine and Critique
G. Anthony Bruno

7. Critique With a Small C: Herder's Critical Philosophical Practice and Anticritical Polemics
Rachel Zuckert

8. Irony and the Possibility of Romantic Criticism: Friedrich Schlegel as Poet-Critic
Karolin Mirzakhan

9. Alexander von Humboldt: A Critic of Nature
Elizabeth Millán Brusslan

10. Critique, Refutation, Appropriation: Strategies of Hegel's Dialectic
Angelica Nuzzo

11. Abstraction and Critique in Marx: The Case of Debt
Rocío Zambrana

12. Nietzsche's Project of Reevaluation: What Kind of Critique?
Daniel R. Rodríguez-Navas

13. Kantian Critique, Its Ethical Purification by Hermann Cohen, and Its Reflective Transformation by Wilhelm Dilthey
Rudolf A. Makkreel

14. Transcendental Phenomenology as Radical Immanent Critique: Subversions and Matrices of Intelligibility
Andreea Smaranda Aldea

15. From the Metaphysics of Law to the Critique of Violence
Peter Fenves

16. Is There Critique in Critical Theory? The Claim of Happiness on Theory
Richard A. Lee Jr.

17. Critique as Melancholy Science
Amy Allen

18. Reality and Resistance: Habermas and Haslanger on Objectivity, Social Critique, and the Possibility of Change
Federica Gregoratto

19. The Critique of Law and the Law of Critique
Christoph Menke

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